Rafflesia Flower Smell Rotting Meat
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Rafflesia flower smell rotting meat. As if size and rarity weren't enough, rafflesia is also one of the world's most distasteful plants, designed to imitate rotting meat or dung. The plants lives as a parasite on vines, but only blooms for a few days. This is particularly important as these plants don't bloom often and, when they do, the flower only lasts for one week before dying off.
The flower is endemic to the rainforests of borneo and sumatra. One corpse flowers can be 3 meters in height. The plants then bloom again within a year’s time.
Which plant can kill a human? Flowers of plants in the genus rafflesia (family rafflesiaceae) emit an odor similar to that of decaying meat.this odor attracts the flies that pollinate the plant. The article went on to say that the plant doesn’t have any roots or leaves;
I read this article on the corpse flower, and was intrigued by these two paragraphs.the article is very interesting if you care to read it. This is not your typical flower, and you will never see it in a bouquet. The world's largest flower belongs to the rafflesia genus which is known for producing plants that smell like rotting meat.
All species of rafflesia have a different reproduction process than most plants. The stigmas or stamens are attached to a spiked disk inside the flower. The flower smells a lot like rotting meat.
It can weigh as much as 10 kilos. Corpse flower is also the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. When rafflesia is ready to reproduce, a tiny bud forms on the outside of the root or stem and develops over a period of a year.